Burnham Market Primary and Nursery School
Academy sponsor led · King's Lynn · PE31 8JA
Ages 2–11 · 111 pupils · Norfolk
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
73%
Overall absence
8.4%
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-04-23
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 7.0%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 2.1%
- Enrolments in measure
- 95
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
111 pupils · 125 places
- Pupils on roll
- 111
- Boys / girls
- 56 / 55
- School capacity
- 125
- Capacity fill
- 111 / 125 (89%)
- Free school meals
- 27%
- FSM pupils
- 30
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
Age range
Ages 2–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Governance
- Academy trust: THE WENSUM TRUST
- Academy trust
- THE WENSUM TRUST
- Sponsor
- The Wensum Trust
- Headteacher
- Mrs Rachel Stroulger
Location
- Address
- Friars Lane, Burnham Market
- Postcode
- PE31 8JA
- Town
- King's Lynn
- County
- Norfolk
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- District
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (primary), Ages 2–11, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, 111 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 27%.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Rachel Stroulger
- Telephone
- 01328738354